Membership is important because:

ORCID is a non-profit organization funded through organizational membership and subscription fees. To sustain the registry and our mission of addressing the name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications, we rely on membership and subscription funding from the research community.

Members receive these benefits:

Members receive access to the Member API, which facilitates registration, deposit, editing, and updating of Record Data and/or read Limited Access Data, with permission from an individual ORCID iD holder ("opt-in"). In addition, members receive personalized technical support, integrated application user acceptance testing, a monthly newsletter, and invitations to public events hosted by ORCID. In addition, members also may enter nominations for service on the ORCID Board. See this Member Comparison table for more detail.

Please review the category and benefits descriptions below for the one that best fits your circumstances. If you have questions, please contact membership@orcid.org

Member/Subscriber Categories

ORCID offers two membership/subscription categories for organizations: basic and premium. Non-profit organizations are eligible for a 20% member fee discount on basic or premium membership fees. To encourage small and start-up organizations to embed iDs, organizations with less than US$ 200,000 in revenue in their last fiscal year are eligible for a 75% discount on basic or premium membership. Discounts will be evaluated at each membership renewal. Non-profit and start-up discounts are not applied to premium consortium agreements.

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Fees

Basic

Organizations planning limited, single-system ORCID implementations

Organizations with limited data needs

Organizations that will interact with a relatively small number of researchers per month

Standard (single legal entity): US$ 5,000

Consortium (5 or more entities): 10% discount on standard fee per group member

Non-profit organizations are eligible for a 20% discount.

Start-up organizations are eligible for a 75% discount.

Premium

Organizations that will be integrating ORCID iDs in multiple systems

Organizations that will be using ORCID iDs in vendor-hosted systems and separate internal systems

Organizations that have high data needs, or require frequent data dumps

Organizations interested in analytics of the interactions between their systems and ORCID

Organizations that will interact with a relatively large number of researchers per month

Organizations interested in enabling data synchonization between ORCID data and their own

Many employers are using the standard license to facilitate the creation of ORCID records for their faculty and staff. Members have found this license to be in agreement with national data transfer regulations.